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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 4 The Man of Two Minds, Section 6 | Part 2, Chapter 5 Agassiz, Section 1 | Part 2, Chapter 5 Agassiz, Section 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Battle of the Wilderness claimed 60,000 lives and was fought over the span of _________.
(a) 30 days.
(b) 60 days.
(c) 40 days.
(d) 20 days.

2. Before the war, Holmes considered _________ to be the center of intellectual thinking, like his father before him.
(a) Philadelphia.
(b) Boston.
(c) Jamestown.
(d) New York.

3. Holmes was wounded ______ times during the Civil War.
(a) One.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

4. After the murder of ________ Emerson's distrust of the South grew as did his affiliation with the abolitionists.
(a) Phillips.
(b) Lovejoy.
(c) Holmes Sr.
(d) James.

5. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and Ralph Waldo Emerson worked together in order to found the ___________.
(a) Boston Gazette.
(b) Harvard Magazine.
(c) Atlantic Monthly.
(d) New Yorker.

Short Answer Questions

1. The dominant political party during the time of the Civil War was ________.

2. In January of 1861, Richard Hallowell hired Holmes as a body guard for __________.

3. _________ had more spindles of cotton than all of the eleven states of the South put together.

4. After Holmes returned to the army following the Battle of Fredericksburg, there was a new regiment created of black volunteers, the __________.

5. During the Civil War _________ spent ninety days with the Newport Artillery, but then spent the rest of the war studying medicine at Harvard.

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